Column: Maybe it’s the spring air, maybe it’s the sweetness of Easter, but lately erskinetimes seems to be on a small pleasure hunt.
Yeah, even White Fang gets scared. We're all a little scared. Get over yourself. Move on.
You just string together these tiny pleasures — a cheesy chunk of cow for lunch, or a neon martini at a very swanky bar — as a fence against the worries of the world. Wad these joys together, if you will; crumple them up till you have your sturdy fence. This, of course, would help solve my problem, lured as I would be by the sight of a crime scene in the house, stepping over the yellow tape, as I did as a young reporter … entitled, curious and a little stupid.I just paid my taxes with drugstore vodka and a MasterCard that expired 25 years ago. We’ll see how the IRS reacts. I suspect they will be impressed, as bill collectors generally are, that I am finally showing any sort of initiative.
I seem to be the collector of old cruddy things, the stuff my daughters left us after college, skeletal and lame IKEA lamps, and tubs and tubs of sweaters, still candied with college perfumes. At the Los Angeles Times’ book fest last week, I was especially struck by a panel exchange featuring essayist Heather Havrilesky.
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